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Chloé Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week After last season’s virtual motorcycle trip, Chloé’s Clare Waight Keller was in the mood for a more urban vibe. “I wanted to bring it back to the city. It was time to clean it up,” she said backstage, wearing an oversize white tee tucked into high-waisted pants. A version ...

Wanda Nylon Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Let’s congratulate Wanda Nylon’s Johanna Senyk—not for her well-deserved ANDAM win in July, but for resisting the temptation to let the award alter the raw allure of her brand. For while the turnout today may have been more substantial in quantity than before, and perhaps also in quality ...

Vionnet Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Following a few seasons of making optimistic excuses for Vionnet, it was a pleasure to see a collection in which many of the looks proved positive affirmations of the passion behind this unfashionable fashion house. Goga Ashkenazi put the staff of her atelier on the runway for the finale ...

Dice Kayek Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week A visit to Dice Kayek’s Left Bank pop-up shop and temporary showroom began with an invitation to indulge in specialty rose-petal lokum (Turkish delight) and ended with a discussion of the recent coup d’état attempt in Turkey. Between the sweet and the serious, cofounder Ece Ege gave a ...

Aganovich Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week A reading of Sophie Calle’s stylized exercise in stalking, Suite Vénitienne, opened an Aganovich show that combined magisterial anguish with carefully corralled disarray. Our heroines began their pursuit in ghostly, raw calico: a slish-slashed double-hemmed dress trailed with threads and a second with extravagantly ruched and plucked waves of ...

Lemaire Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Just when you thought you knew what you were going to get from Lemaire, designers Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran shake up the formula. Their Spring collection wasn’t a radical departure, but there were more than a few pleasant surprises. To click through last season’s show is to see ...